New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-06
THE TALK or THE DAY.

man la Illinois owns mad stone which he clams
Will hydrophobia and also afori relief from tho
bites of animals, snakes. and the sting Of insects The
stone was purchased from a French physician thirty
three years ago for 800 1t has the appearance Of
any ordinary black pebble Under a microscope fns
pores are Its surface. In the sunlight the
stone shows the cuors Of the rainbow
II Is going to be expensive TO wear fIllflcrd soci
ETY. shirt facade this winter Less starch hl- been
made In the United states this year than during any
:" the taicr- they were small and the starch
facturcrs turned out only about onequarer Of their
usual product Now. the nr't thing we know' 'oms-
body will have a corner IN starch and We poor people
will have Ia abandon the customary risidiy oi QUE
thorac.c armor and content ourselves with only sun
! upper lip Springfield Union
From China papers OF recent date It appears that
tho authorities OF Pekn have recently taken census
OF the Empire and It for taxing purpose, III,
pronenesS dlSbeeye I'm the large estimates must 10
modified accordingly. The figures returned by Tho
village bafs make the population 3l0,3e3. 800 which
together with the estimate of five provinces omitted
axes the aggregate about 392 100000 These figures
are independent o. the population Of Corea. Thbet
and Kashgar As the population OF India exceeds
o5OO0O,OOo the lndoOs and Chinese constitute mors
than half the entire human race.
"Parsons's first appearance In the role Of labor al
tator was in this city In 1876" laid Editor jew %
day looking up old newspaper friends and scattering
some Of the wealth which the propuetoirhp ~ ~
Dakota newspaper has forced upon him. % wa men
foreman OF the old Chicago Courier publisher "a
Monroe-'t. Parsons was setting ads ard u con-
WINGED himself and about fifteen other compo,l'ft
that they had q grie ;ance, and they struck Ih'y
repaired tn the corner of Market and Madison. ana
Parsons mounted dry goods box aud proceeded 70
spout the first OF his Trades against the iron hand ~
capital the oppressor's grinding heel, and that >ott
around him. gathered from tho people going home.
when crowd had grown large and noisy the police
away Ervm that time he has been a labor agiiatnr
and crank. Ho never had much OF llhins for work,
crowd the wrongs Of the workingman '-ltmca''
Mail.
A recent issue of The pekn Gazette contain, an
Imperial decree peremptorly forbIddtng IN the fwuo
any abbrevation Of the Of provinces, persons
places etc. In memorials addressed to the throne BY
high officials of the Chinese Empire. such abbreyis
lions are considered serious breaches Of ctiqu't and
cannot be tolerated.
Wife | was so amused in church this morning.
when the plate passed To that pert little Mss >r'h
sho hastily put her hand In her pocket and then shook
her head aud turned a, red as nre she hs ev.Ien2
mortified aud was glad 10 Il.
Husband-what was tho text y
Wifo-It from Matthew. Whatsoever We would
,ha men should do YOU, do ye 10 them" Mr.
Goodman unusually ehectl,c.-lEpoeh.
The proposed colonization Of all the DunkarS Of tho
United States in the Panhandle section of Texas IL
A very large Undertaking. The Dunhats are peculiar
clicou. Sec whose chief tenets literal ocllefia
teachings OF the Gospel, anu IN anhorTehcc III "A
Durlur the civil War both sides respected their Scru-
n,c, against fighting and exempted them from service
in the army \ nl,print In tho Confederate statute
on the subject made 1t appear that "drunkardS "eS
exempted Thi, was good news 10 the red-no>ed mon
Of the south, but their satisfaction was short N'' !"
the mist aae wa soon corrected Texas i To De oo"'
graduated upon securing these honest indus rou' PEG
pie.
funny anec,loe told Of NJ Bovin, an elrera a..
An the iuo de rAbbaye, who had hun. up SOle on 1
nj Tho Ely see. A. New-lear> DAY aPptVd''cu INK
toward tho close of l9-1, an electFic' 'Pi ~ pa
t,uamrnted with diamonds 10 the President oi lloa
uuhiic but Instead of getting decoration ~. tT,nIn
81 Gr,yy pur rat VII" Letter ot th1hhs. in ,Jan
nnthInr daiuted. wrote To the President ana ia p sSs
yr,rI. osled for and Obtained decoration A. 49,
~, he Legion Of Honor The ground ha be AS, III.
cetycd gold medal AT the Antwerp EXhiDN""
nanlS Mc79c"-OI
WILD geese hunters are having fire sport "n l'sHo'
nra,res \ sport -man writes from Newih' "'
mat Lc feoucntly secs nocks OF geese eSi'''"s -
acres giving the ground an appearance oi '' an
cred by an immense snow bank goo" "N' =,
proach them l. by hor-' and wagon a 'l' i'm -.
not ,re a man IN a wagon they viii not rise INN
horse /, very near. ry urging he morse "', nv
rum the hunter i carried directly under ne O','
the time they are fairly up In the an ~
away with telling results 49,
A little miss of i've with good dea, o. 6roihcf.
and inle peuience In her compositions ~, a., great
in law oi whom she Is very tond l".s f,,lr llh
chuns aud It hard ~ decide wh''neI , ~, they begin
tho man Is the most W''"'' ~ calling him my
their rOmps. Shc pcie'''' - -
Your brother-in-Iaw, corrected P'''
visitor ono day. , ,.,a, the young ster-s
fact so self evident that II preeluded i"i'"''
icai explanations -(IIarpers BasI